Stockholm suicide bomber’s wife admits posting clip on YouTube

The British widow of the
Stockholm suicide bomber, Mona Thwany, admitted posting his video on
YouTube after he’d blown himself up before Christmas.

Married: Mona Thwany and Taimour Abdulwahab

Mona Thwany said she uploaded Taimour Abdulwahab’s anti-Western rant because she thought people would want to know ‘the truth’.

‘I felt it was painful to tell the story over and over again. Naively, I thought people were interested in knowing the truth – why he did it – so I put that up on his YouTube channel,’ she told Sweden’s TV4 network.

‘I do condemn his actions and I do condemn any terrorism. If I knew what he was going to do I would have stopped him,’ said Ms Thwany, who lives with their three children in Luton.

Abdulwahab blew himself up in a street surrounded by Christmas shoppers in Stockholm on December 11.

He had already exploded his car 100m (328ft) from where he died.Minutes earlier, the 29-year-old sports therapist, had emailed an audio message to Sepo, the Swedish security service, and to the TT news agency.

Swedish security police have been studying the YouTube account records since it was revealed that a full version of the video appeared in Arabic, English and Swedish, on the bomber’s account – two days before officials made it public.

Security experts had suggested the bomber could have had an accomplice.